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Abba_S
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The Bais Din may rule that the husband has to give a get but I don’t believe the Bais Din authorizes embarrassing him. The story of Bar Kamtza shows that Hashem punishes the Jewish People even for the embarrassment of an Evil Man such as Bar Kamtza.

What is happening is that zealots take the ruling as a license to embarrass the husband and in some cases resulting in the husband fleeing the jurisdiction making it more difficult to collect alimony and child support besides making it harder to get him to give a get. Even if he doesn’t flee he can sue in Civil Court the ex-wife, Bais Din and the people defaming him at least here in the US. This why Bais Din would be stupid to authorize it as they gain nothing by authorizing it but can lose fined so severely that they loose everything they own.